After studying the situation in Kenya, a group of Kenyans have decided to call a meeting in Stockholm for the setting up of a Kenyan Opposition Party to address the political, social and economic crisis in our country.
Consultations are still underway and Mr. Martin Ngatia, a leading member of the group, told Mapambano Online, an information outlet of Kenyan politics, that the Coalition government has failed the people of Kenya and that in the absence of political opposition on the ground, it is necessary that Kenyans abroad begin to move in the direction of setting up an opposition Party which can rescue the country from the capitalist class rule whose unacceptable methods of leadership has resulted in mass hunger and deprivation, starvation of millions of Kenyans, homelessness, looting of the economy by the rich, passing of arbitrary and dictatorial bills and murder of innocent civilians using security forces with orders to “shoot to kill”.
The general view among Kenyans linked to the group is that Kenya needs a revolution and the main task of the proposed Party will be to address the needs of this revolution, how it can be organized and how the revolutionary struggle in Kenya can be waged to attain the fundamental goals of this revolution.
At the center of the political struggle in Kenya is how the masses of exploited Kenyan people can organize politically to defeat the Kibaki-Raila government of the rich and to replace it with an accountable government that can be able to serve the interests of millions of poor Kenyans instead of maintaing the current situation where the rich man’s government is serving the interests of both wealth grabbers looting the State and Imperialist agents siphoning the country’s resources abroad through multinational companies and other known economic saboteurs.
Kenya Is Ripe For Revolution
Mr. Ngatia told Mapambano Online that over the years, governments have come and gone while change that can transform the lives of millions of suffering Kenyans has been elsusive because leaders have either betrayed the struggle by choosing to serve imperialist interests or have been ill equipped politically to bring about the necessary revolutionary changes that could transform the lives of the poor in Kenya.
“A government that cannot control the prices of essential consumer commodities like unga or fuel by leaving such controls on private hands has failed in its responsibilities to govern and should therefore be replaced using the democratic methods available in the field of struggle”, Mr. Ngatia told Mapambano Online.
Mr. Ngatia said that it has become difficult to trust that the same opportunist leaders will be able to deliver the masses of the Kenyan people from poverty and human suffering that has reduced Wananchi to animals shamelessly scavenging for food across the country as the rich and their families continue to fill their stomachs using money stolen from State coffers through tax evasion, Grand Regency style mega corruption and other methods of theft and plunder of the economy inherited from the Moi and Kenyatta dictatorships.
Mr. Ngatia said that Kenyans need to forget about a change in their lives if they cannot accept the stark reality that the country is ripe for a revolution that can drive the thieving ruling class and their allies out of power to be replaced by a new breed of revolutionary leaders armed with the right ideas that can guarantee equitable distribution of wealth in the country. He said that once this understanding is reached by millions of suffering Kenyans, the next question will be how to organize the revolution. He said that a key objective of the proposed Party will be to participate in bringing about this understanding without which, he said, there will be no revolution in Kenya that could overthrow the rotten system of government also responsible for the current crisis today.
Further, Mr. Ngatia said that as long as Kenyans continue to pin their hopes for change on agents of exploitation represented by Parliamentarians who cannot even pay taxes, and who pass laws to muzzle the Media, they will continue to die en masse of hunger, treatable diseases and other conditions as the country’s wealth is either looted locally or repatriated abroad through a well structured, rotten and exploitative system of capitalism that has failed Kenya for the last fourty five years. Mr. Ngatia welcomed debate on the proposed Party and urged Kenyans interested to send mail to: debate(at)mapambano.com or to debate the issues directly at http://www.mapambano.com, a web site that has been set up by progressive Kenyans in Diaspora as part of the contribution to the struggle back home.
Okoth Osewe
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